Grid Information Technology – Project Management, Senior Manager

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Grid Information Technology – Project Management, Senior Manager at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll lead a team of Project Managers who are responsible for delivering multiple Software projects in the Grid Management System portfolio that involves integrating Commercial Off-The-Shelf product with SCE’s Grid and Enterprise applications and systems with a high degree of quality and within scope, schedule, and budget. 

As part of the Grid Management System team, partner with business clients and other IT teams, to provide project management oversight and direction to project teams to ensure solution and service delivery. Handle all stages of the systems development life cycle, including analysis, estimation, design, evaluation, demonstration, construction, testing, implementation, and post-implementation support through warranty period. Play a key role in enablement and automation of business capabilities, functions, processes, and products for the Grid Management System. 

As a Grid Information Technology – Project Management, Senior Manager, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?

Responsibilities

• Develops long-term vision and strategic roadmap for the project management competency
• Cultivates relationships with business partners and vendors to achieve operational excellence
• Drive adoption of innovative project management methodologies and approaches
• Directs project portfolio planning and ongoing optimization of resources to advance key initiatives
• Enhances program increment planning, dependency management, and synchronization of Agile release trains
• Promotes collaboration between project teams to share knowledge, reuse code, align architecture, and standardize processes
• Provides coaching and mentoring to project managers on Agile principles, removing impediments, and evolving practices
• Drives initiatives to improve team velocity trends, defect rates, and sprint burndown metrics to mitigate risk
• A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Minimum Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience supervising a team of direct reports and/or project management.
• Experience developing long-term vision and strategic roadmaps for IT projects.
• Experienced in technical leadership of project portfolio planning and ongoing optimization of resources.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ten or more years of experience in a Technical, Engineering and/or Business – related Project Management role, leading successful implementation of projects against scope, timeline, and budget.
• Seven or more years of experience supporting or leading Software projects or key business initiatives.
• Five or more years of experience with Deployment Readiness, IT Operational Readiness, Organization Change Management, Data Readiness, and Distribution Network Modeling.
• Five or more years of experience managing System Integration work to integrate Commercial Off-The-Shelf product with Enterprise applications and systems.
• Three or more years of experience managing suppliers, service contracts, project metrics, and contracts to meet project objectives.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related technical major.
• Five or more years or experience working with Grid Control systems. (SCADA, Distribution Management System, Outage Management System) and deployment of DER capabilities. 
• Professional training and certifications consistent with Project Management, including one or more of the following: Six Sigma, ITIL, PMP, Agile and/or Scrum certification

Additional Information

• TThis position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
• Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!
• Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
• Relocation does not apply to this position.

About Southern California Edison

The people at SCE don’t just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.

At SCE, we celebrate our differences. We are a proud Equal Opportunity Employer and will not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other protected status.

We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at (833) 343-0727.

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